one could observe that:
1. Due to ignorance (of underlying realities of existence) we process/ferment what comes to our mind.
2. This processing/fermentation causes karma to form and mould the status consciousness (vinyana).
3. The functioning/existence of the status consciousness has a close association with regards to sustaining life (one's existence).
4. "Name" and "Form" describes the non-material and material components of one's existence. "Name" are the constituents one's mind, consciousness and ideas... "Form" (material) are the constituents of the body (made of solids, liquids, gasses...).
5. The six sense bases of perception are composed of "Name" (the mind/vinyana...components) and "Form" (the solids, liquids, gasses... components).
6, 7. When the six sense bases of perception comes in contact with entities (ex. eye with external world, nose with fragrances,... mind with thoughts/memories...), they generate feelings (in the mind).
8. Next we generate/get desires for these feelings.
9. These desires makes one "cling onto" them (wanting more...).
10, 11. This clinging causes the generation of causations/factors (karma) that causes/leads/drags one into future births, so that such accumulated karma can take effect, can materialise... (The generation of sankhara /karma due to attachments, desires, longings, cravings... or due to the aversions, angers, hates... generated during the cause of such quests/pursuits... will lead one through eternal samsara resulting in the generation of yet further causations/karma, requiring further... Thus bonding one into this eternal journey...)
12. Then once one gets into a birth, one undergoes/endures all the sufferings associated with such...
1. But again due to our ignorance, we fail to realise the underlying nature/reality of existence. Thus veiled and shadowed by ignorance, we keep on generating the mental fermentations/volitions that keeps one further bonded to samsara...
Thus the cycle ever so continues for ever and ever unto perpetuity... Thus breaking away from this cycle (by "eradicating"/overcoming ignorance), leads to its cessation (cessation of the perpetual wandering)....
Can one harness mind/karma to control the time/place/circumstance of one's rebirth? Obviously karma works in all directions, and if we can know it and influence it, can we predict the outcome? They enormous prayer wheels in Tibet which pour out energy, could we make one to transmit a soul to a certain body as a form of time travel?
